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From the Desk of the Vice Chancellor

Greetings!

As the Vice Chancellor of this premier university, I am extremely pleased to share this space to converse with all of you. The University of Madras is a post- sesquicentennial institution which has forged a glorious path for itself and has been the site for significant scientific discoveries as well as the beacon for national and regional societal transformation. It has successfully managed to hold aloft its tradition even while keeping up with the emerging trends. One reason for this is the way in which the university has kept alive its interactions with all the stakeholders.

The COVID 19 pandemic has introduced a ‘new normal’ and its impact is felt in the workings of the university as well. The students have been attending the lectures online. While online learning has the advantage of being anytime and anywhere, it has taken away the peer group interaction and peer learning which are integral aspects of the university experience. We look forward to welcoming you to the campus very soon. Meanwhile, our faculty and administration will continue to bring the best to the virtual classrooms. As students, you need to view the restrictions posed by the pandemic as a temporary deterrent. Your focus should be to gain the competencies to conduct application oriented research in order to evolve as useful citizens of our society.

Our university boasts of faculty with a high degree of knowledge and commitment to offer the best in teaching and research. Given the context of the pandemic, we need to redefine our teaching-learning processes to offer the best pedagogic experience to our students. Similarly, the post-pandemic era demands that we hone the employment potential and entrepreneurial capacity of our learners. This necessitates that we focus on sponsored research in cutting edge areas.

Our administrative staff have been the backbone of the university. While we move towards a transparent and complete e-governance model, we need more support from you. When the teaching-learning process at our university – from admission to certification -- is moving into the digital era, your skills and competencies need to keep pace.

At our university, we are gearing up for the final round of NAAC re-accreditation. This has offered us an opportunity to assess our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges. Further, it has made us more determined to reiterate our quality benchmarks in teaching, research and extension activities. We are aware of this responsibility and fully prepared for it because, our university has always encouraged individual thinking within the established frameworks. This is echoed in the words of Tim Burners Lee, who initiated the World Wide Web: “We are forming cells within a global brain and we are excited that we might start to think collectively. What becomes of us still hangs crucially on how we think individually.” Let us unite to make the educational experience at the University of Madras a synergy of the best minds and best thoughts.

Prof.Dr.S.Gowri

Vice-Chancellor
University of Madras

Dr. S. BalakumarM. Sc., M. Phil., Ph.D., FRSC (UK), FInstP (IOP, UK), SMIEEE (USA)

Professor
National Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology
17

Awards

306

Publications

40

Seminars / Conference

31

Projects

14

Ph.D Awarded

8

Ph.D Present

Achievements
  • IME Team Excellence Award on Nanowires project, 2008
  • IME Long Term Service award, 2007
  • IEEE Senior Membership Award, 2004
  • JSPS Fellowship, Japan 2000
  • STA Fellowship, 2001
  • NSTB Fellowship by Singapore A-Star -1997-1999
  • CUHK University fellowship (1995-97)
  • CSIR Research Fellowship to carry out Ph.D, 1994
  • CSIR Travel Award to  attend IMf1993, USA
  • DST Full  Travel Award to attend  and Chair   MRS 2009
  •   US Patents : High Speed  Nanowire Semiconductor Devices  based on Hetero structure and formation of Such ( Patent filed, 2007)
  • U.S. Patent:High K artificial lattices for capacitor applications to use in CU or AL BEOL, Patent No. 6,830,971
  • U.S. Patent   Linear polishing for improving substrate uniformity, U. S Patent:   6,726,545, April 27, 2004
  • U.S. Patent:  Multiple steps CMP polishing, U. S Patent:   6,663,472, December 16, 2003
  • U.S. Patent: Method to form shallow trench isolations, U.S. Patent: 6,649,486 , November 18, 2003
  • U.S. Patent: Method for improving oxide erosion of tungsten CMP operations,    U. S. Patent: 6,569,770,, May 27, 2003  
  • U.S. Patent:  CMP uniformity, U.S.  Patent: 6,248,006   June 19, 2001.
  • Know How:   Disclosure: Method of Controlling the Shape and Strain in SiGe or Ge Nanowires ( Know – how- 2008)
  •   U.S Patent: Method of optical loss reduction for waveguides in electronic and optical components integration (PAT06-059/SPT-NDT-014), - Filed in US
  • U.S. Patent:  Method of fabricating tensile strained layers and compressive strain layers for a CMOS device, Patent 7439165, 2008
  • Senior Fellow of the UNESCO-UNISA  CHAIR in Nanosciences/Nanotechnology,(from 2014)
  • Associate Editor, RSC Advances, 2015
  • Fellow of Academy of Sciences, Chennai, 2016
  • Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016
  • Best Researcher Award for Significant Research Publications, 2018
  •  Senior Scientist Award - TNHE - Science City - Feb'2019
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Chemical Papers (Springer)
  • University Best Researcher Award 2019
  • Tamil Nadu Scientist Award (TANSA) for Physical Science - Tamil Nadu Science and Technology, Higher Education Department, Tamil Nadu Govt-2020 
  • Acheivements: Journal Publications: 267; US Patents: 8; Indian Patent: 2;  Awards- TANA2020,  Senior Scientist Award- 2019- (TamilNadu Higher Eduction);  Best Researcher Award 2018 and 2019;  CHKU- Post doctoral fellowship (1995-97);  NSTB Post Doctoral fellowship (1997-99); JSPS fellowship (200); STA Fellowship(2001); IME Nanowire Project Award (2007); Adjunct Associate Professor- National University of Singapore (2004-08); 
  • Fellow of Institute of Physcs, Institute of Physics, United Kingdom ( Jan 2023)
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